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The novelist and playwright Fay Weldon dies on 4th January, aged 91.
On 7th January Congressman Kevin McCarthy is finally elected US House Speaker after 15 rounds of voting.
On the same day a 29-year-old black man, Tyre Nichols, is stopped for reckless driving and severely beaten by five black police officers of the Memphis Police Department (MPD). Nichols dies on 10th January; the five officers are arrested on 26th January and charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression.
On Sunday, 8th January supporters of the former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro storm Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace, seeking to overthrow the newly-inaugurated President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Prince Harry's autobiography Spare is published on 10th January. Extracts from the book are leaked ahead of publication day after some copies went on sale early in Spain.
Jeff Beck, the guitarist who first found fame as a member The Yardbirds and then had a solo hit in 1967 with Hi Ho Silver Lining, dies on 10th January, aged 78.
Lisa Marie Presley , the only daughter of Elvis Presley, dies on 12th January, aged 54.
Gina Lollobrigida, whose many films included starring roles in Beat The Devil, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame and Crossed Swords, dies on 16th January, aged 95.
David Crosby, who co-founded The Byrds in 1964 and went on to form Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1968, dies on 18th January, aged 81.
On 21st January a 72-year-old man armed with a semi-automatic pistol kills eleven people and injures nine others at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California. The gunman dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound the next day.
On 23rd January another gunman opens fire at two farms in Half Moon Bay, California, killing seven people and critically injuring an eighth.
On Thursday, 26th January the Royal Mail resumes overseas tracked and signed-for deliveries, a fortnight after a cyber attack on its computer systems by ransomware gang Lockbit.
On the same day ten Palestinians are killed during an Israeli military raid in Jenin. A day later a Palestinian gunman opens fire at people outside the Ateret Avraham Synagogue in East Jerusalem, killing seven people and injuring three others.
Sylvia Syms, who played opposite Dirk Bogarde in the 1961 film Victim, dies on 27th January, aged 89.
Nadhim Zahawi is sacked as Tory Party Chairman on 29th January for failing to disclose that his tax affairs were under investigation by HMRC.
Barrett Strong, who sang Motown Records' first major hit Money (That's What I Want) and went on to co-write many Motown classics including I Heard It Through The Grapevine, War and Papa Was A Rollin' Stone, dies on 29th January, aged 81.
On 30th January a mosque in the Police Headquarters area of Peshawar is attacked by a suicide bomber during afternoon prayers. 101 people are killed and over 220 others injured.

On 1st February school teachers in England and Wales join bus and train drivers, civil servants and university staff in taking strike action over pay not keeping pace with inflation.
The fashion designer Paco Rabanne dies on 3rd February, aged 88.
An United States F-22 jet fighter shoots down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, 4th February. Three further high-altitude objects are shot down on 10th, 11th and 12th February.
On Sunday, 5th February the Head Teacher at Epsom College, Emma Pattison, is found dead at her home on the school grounds, alongside her husband George and their daughter Lettie.
Pervez Musharraf, the head of Pakistan's armed forces who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999 and then served as President from 2001-2008, dies on the same day, aged 79.
On 6th February, in the early hours of the morning, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, followed by a second slightly less powerful earthquake nine hours later.
David Carrick, a former officer in the Metropolitan Police who had pleaded guilty to 85 serious offences including 48 rapes against 12 women, is sentenced to life in prison at Southwark Crown Court on 7th February.
Burt Bacharach, one of pop music's greatest composers, dies on Wednesday, 8th February, aged 94.
Raquel Welch, who became internationally famous after appearing in the films Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years B.C., dies on Wednesday, 15th February, aged 82.
On the same day Nicola Sturgeon announces her intention to resign as Scotland's First Minister and as Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP). She is succeeded by Humza Yousaf, who is officially appointed First Minister on 29th March.
Dickie Davies, host of ITV's World Of Sport, dies on 19th February, aged 94.
Football commentator John Motson, popularly known as Motty, dies on 23rd February, aged 77.
On 24th February, following the outcry over the publication of re-written versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s books, which removed language deemed offensive (words such as "crazy", "mad", "fat" and "ugly"), Puffin announces that the original texts of seventeen of the author's works would be re-published as The Roald Dahl Classic Collection.
Bola Tinubu wins the disputed Nigerian presidential election held on 25th February.
Betty Boothroyd, the first woman to be elected as Speaker of the House of Commons - a position she held from 1992 to 2000, dies on 26th February, aged 93.
On 27th February the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announce an agreement named the Windsor Framework, aimed at fixing post-Brexit problems in Northern Ireland. MPs give the agreement their backing (by 515 votes to 29) in the House of Commons on 22nd March.
On 28th February at least 57 people are killed in a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train between the Greek towns of Tempi and Evangelismos.

The actor Chaim Topol, best known for his portrayal of milkman Tevye in Fiddler On The Roof, dies on 8th March at the age of 87.
Petr Pavel is inaugurated as President of the Czech Republic on 9th March.
On the same day, following mass protests on the streets in Tbilisi, the coalition government in Georgia announces that it will "unconditionally" withdraw its proposed Law On Transparency of Foreign Influence. The Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili praises the protesters in a televised address from New York: "I want to congratulate society on its first victory. I am proud of the people who made their voices heard."
On 10th March the BBC suspends the presenter of Match Of The Day, Gary Lineker, following his criticism of the UK government's asylum policy on Twitter - "an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s".
Dick Fosbury, the athlete from the USA who revolutionised the high jump by jumping backwards over the bar - a technique that became known as the 'Fosbury flop' - dies on 12th March, aged 76.
On 14th March a 22-year-old woman, Eleanor Williams, is sentenced at Preston Crown Court to eight-and-a-half years in prison, having falsely claimed that she had been raped by multiple men and trafficked by an Asian grooming gang.
Baroness Casey's independent review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service is published on 20th March. Her report, which was commissioned following the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer, Wayne Couzens, reveals a "boy's club" culture rife with racism, misogyny, and homophobia.
At least 26 people are killed and dozens injured on 24th March when powerful storms and at least one tornado hit the US state of Mississippi. The small town of Rolling Fork, the hometown of Blues singer Muddy Waters, is all but totally destroyed.
On 27th March Aiden Hale, a transgender man and former student at The Covenant School in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, shoots and kills three nine-year-old children and three adults at the school before being shot and killed by two officers from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD).
The Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who wrote the film scores for Marry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Little Buddha (1993) and The Revenant (2015), dies on 28th March, aged 71.
The comedian and broadcaster Paul O’Grady, who first found fame in the 1980s with his drag queen persona Lily Savage, dies on the same day, aged 67.
On 29th March King Charles III makes the first foreign visit of his reign, arriving in Berlin with Camilla, the Queen Consort for a three-day state visit to Germany. A planned visit to France ahead of their trip to Germany had been cancelled following unrest in several French cities over pension reforms.

Nigel Lawson, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 11th June 1983 to 26th October 1989, dies on 3rd April, aged 91.
Sir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy in the USA on 4th April following the failure in January of its first rocket launch in Britain.
Paul Cattermole of S Club 7 dies on 6th April, aged 46.
On Tuesday, 11th April junior doctors in England begin a four-day strike as part of their campaign for a 35% pay rise.
On the same day the US President Joe Biden visits Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. After an overnight stay he travels to Dublin for a three-day visit to Ireland.
The fashion designer Mary Quant dies on 13th April, aged 93.
Cliff Fish, the bass guitarist with the '70s pop group Paper Lace, dies from cancer on 14th April, aged 73.
On 15th April the President of France Emmanuel Macron signs into law his government's hugely unpopular pension reforms, which raise the state pension age from 62 to 64.
On the same day fighting breaks out in Sudan between the Sudanese army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary force led by his deputy, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.
On 18th April, in a last-minute settlement before trial, Fox News agrees to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million. Fox News issues a statement acknowledging that "certain claims about Dominion" made during its reporting of the 2020 US presidential election were false.
On 19th April at least 90 people are killed and more than 300 injured in a crush outside a school in the Old City of Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, where a crowd had gathered to receive the traditional alms of Zakat al-Fitr before the end of Ramadan.
On 20th April five people are killed and eight others injured at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky when an employee of the bank, Connor Sturgeon, opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle while live-streaming the attack on Instagram.
Dominic Raab, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice, and Lord Chancellor, resigns from the UK government on 21st April following the conclusion of an inquiry into bullying allegations.
Barry Humphries, best known for his stage and television characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, dies on 22nd April, aged 89.
Len Goodman, the former head judge on Strictly Come Dancing and the US version of the show, Dancing With The Stars, dies on the same day, aged 78.
At 3.00pm on Sunday, 23rd April the UK government tests an emergency alarm system, sending an alert to mobile phones using 4G and 5G networks. The alert sounds a minute early on some phones and does not go off at all on others.
Diane Abbott, the UK's first black woman MP, is suspended as a member of the Labour Party on 23rd April after The Observer publishes a letter from her, in which she stated that Irish, Jewish and Traveller people, while they "undoubtedly experience prejudice", were "not all their lives subject to racism". She later withdraws her remarks and apologises: "Racism takes many forms, and it is completely undeniable that Jewish people have suffered its monstrous effects, as have Irish people, Travellers and many others."
The singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, who had won all four of the USA's biggest entertainment awards, an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, dies of congestive heart failure on 25th April, aged 96.
Talk show host Jerry Springer dies on 27th April, aged 79,
On the same day Spain records its hottest ever temperature for April, with heat levels reaching a high of 38.8°C at Cordoba Richard Sharp Airport.
Richard Sharp announces his resignation as Chairman of the BBC on 28th April, following an inquiry into his appointment led by barrister Adam Heppinstall. Just weeks before his appointment Sharp had helped the then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, secure an £800,000 loan. Having failed to disclose this during the interview process, however, the investigation concluded that he had created the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Royal College of Nursing members in England go on strike for 28 hours from 8.00pm on Sunday, 30th April until 11.59pm on Monday evening. The strike was originally supposed to continue into Tuesday but a High Court judge ruled it would be unlawful because a six-month mandate for action had expired.

The Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on Monday, 1st May, aged 84.
Linda Lewis, best known for her UK hits Rocl-A-Doodle Do (1973) and It's In His Kiss (1975), dies on 3rd May, aged 72.
On the same day a 13-year-old schoolboy armed with hand guns opens fire on students and staff at the Vladislav Ribnikar Model Elementary School in Belgrade, killing nine students and a security guard.
The following day a 21-year-old Serbian man armed with an automatic assault rifle opens fire on people from a moving car in Dubona and Malo Orašje. Eight people, including an off-duty police officer, are killed and at least twelve others injured.
The local government elections in England on Thursday, 4th May are the first to be held under the Elections Act 2022, requiring voters to show photo ID when attending a polling station. The Conservative Party loses control of 48 Councils with a net loss of 1,063 Councillors. The Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party all make gains, with Labour becoming the party with most members elected to local government for the first time since 2002.
The Coronation service for King Charles III takes place in Westminster Abbey on Saturday, 6th May, followed by a concert and light show at Windsor Castle on 7th May.
A state of emergency is declared in Alberta on 6th May after wildfires spread across the western Canadian province, forcing more than 24,000 people from their homes.
On 9th May a jury in a civil case in Manhattan finds that in late 1995 or early 1996 the former US President Donald Trump sexually abused the journalist Jean Carroll in a department store in New York City. The jury also finds Trump liable for defamation for calling the writer's accusations "a hoax and a lie" and awards her $5 million in damages.
The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, is arrested on 9th May, prompting nationwide protests. The following day he is indicted on charges that he unlawfully sold state gifts during his premiership. However, on 11th May Pakistan's Supreme Court rules that his arrest on corruption charges was illegal and orders his release on protected bail.
Rolf Harris dies on 10th May, aged 93.
Adam Price, the leader of Plaid Cymru, announces his resignation on the same day, following the publication of a report which found evidence within his party of misogyny, harassment and bullying. Rhun ap Iorwerth is elected unopposed as the new leader on 16th June.
The Eurovision Song Contest is held in Liverpool on Saturday, 14th May. Sweden's Loreen, who won the contest in 2012, wins again with the song Tattoo.
The general elections held in Thailand on 14th May result in the Move Forward Party, led by Pita Limjaroenrat, winning the most seats (151).
On 20th May TV presenter Philip Schofield resigns as co-host of ITV's This Morning, after more than 20 years in the role. He later admits to having had an affair with a young man whom he had helped to get a job as a production assistant on the programme and to lying about their relationship to ITV's management and his other work colleagues.
George Logan, best known Dr. Evadne Hinge in the comedy duo Hinge & Bracket, dies on 21st May, aged 78.
Tina Turner dies on 24th May, aged 83.

The songwriter Cynthia Weil dies on 1st June, aged 82.
On 2nd June two passenger trains and a goods train collide in the state of Odisha in eastern India. 292 people are killed and over 1,100 injured.
Astrud Gilberto, best known for her 1964 hit The Girl From Ipanema, dies on 5th June, aged 83.
On 6th June an explosion causes a portion of the Kakhovka dam (in a Russian-occupied area of Ukraine) to collapse, leading to widespread flooding and forcing thousands of people to flee the towns and villages downstream.
Boris Johnson announces his resignation as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip on Friday, 9th June, after receiving an advance copy of a report by the Commons Privileges Committee. The report, which is published on 15th June, concluded that Johnson had lied to and deliberately misled the House of Commons over lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, who carried out a mass mail-bombing campaign in the USA between 1978 and 1995, is found dead in his prison cell in Butner, North Carolina on 10th June.
The former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi dies on 12th June, aged 86.
On 13th June, in the early hours of the morning, two 19-year-old University students and a 65-year-old man are stabbed to death in Nottingham. Three other people are injured in a related incident when a van is driven into them.
On 14th June a fishing boat being used to smuggle migrants sinks off the coast of Messenia, Greece, 104 people are rescued and 82 bodies recovered, with hundreds more missing and presumed dead.
Glenda Jackson dies on 15th June, aged 87.
Angela Thorne, best known for her role as Marjory Frobisher in To The Manor Born, dies on 16th June, aged 84.
The King's Birthday Honours List, published on 16th June, includes MBEs for broadcasters Ken Bruce and Davina McCall, a CBE for Celia Imrie, and Knighthoods for former hostage Terry Waite and for novelists Ben Okri and Martin Amis, who died in May.
Titan, a submersible operated by the tourism company OceanGate, implodes on 18th June during a deep ocean dive to view the wreck of the Titanic. All five people on board are killed.
On Saturday, 24th June mercenaries from the Wagner Group, a private army fighting alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine, cross the border from their field camps in Ukraine and take control of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Wagner troops then advance on Moscow until the group's leader Yevgeny Prigozhin agrees to a deal brokered by the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. Prigozhin moves to Belarus and the criminal charges against him and his troops are dropped.
On 27th June a seventeen-year-old driver is shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop just outside Paris. The incident triggers days of rioting in cities across France.
On 28th June the Commons Privileges Committee publishes a report criticising ten Conservative politicians, among them the former ministers Nadine Dorries, Dame Priti Patel and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and serving Foreign Office Minister Lord Zac Goldsmith, for "a co-ordinated campaign of interference" in the work of the Committee.
Alan Arkin, the actor who won an Oscar and a BAFTA for his role as the outrageous grandad in the film Little Miss Sunshine, dies on 29th June, aged 89.
Zac Goldsmith resigns as Minister of State for Asia, Energy, Climate and Environment on 30th June, claiming in his letter of resignation that the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was "simply uninterested" in the environment. "That signal, or lack of it, has trickled down through Whitehall and caused a kind of paralysis.
The UK has the hottest June on record. The average monthly temperature of 15.8°C (60.4°F) exceeds the previous highest average June temperature, recorded in 1940 and 1976, by 0.9°C.

The world experiences its hottest day ever on Thursday, 6th July, when the global average temperature reaches 17.08°C.
On the same day Facebook owner Meta launches Threads, a new app to rival Twitter.
Edgars Rinkevics is sworn in as President of Latvia on Saturday, 8th July. He is the first openly gay head of state of a European Union nation.
On the same day Elton John plays the final date of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour at the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm.
On Thursday, 13th July junior doctors in England begin a five-day strike, with more senior doctors stepping in to provide emergency care before going on strike themselves on Thursday, 20th and Friday, 21st July.
Members of the US actors' union SAG–AFTRA (formed by the merger of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) begin a strike at midnight on 14th July, bringing US film and television productions to a halt and causing the cancellation promotional events and film premieres.
The actress Jane Birkin, best known for her number 1 hit with Serge Gainsbourg, Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus, dies on 16th July, aged 76.
Voters go to the polls in three by-elections in England on 20th July. The Conservative candidate Steve Tuckwell wins in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, the seat formerly held by Boris Johnson; Labour's Keir Mather, 25, wins in Selby and Ainsty, overturning a Conservative majority of 20,137 to become the youngest sitting MP; Sarah Dyke wins for the Liberal Democrats in Somerton and Frome,
Tony Bennett, known for songs such as The Way You Look Tonight, Body And Soul and (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco, dies on Friday, 21st July, aged 96.
Vince Hill, best known for his 1967 hit Edelweiss, dies on 22nd July, aged 89. Writing on Twitter the following day, Lyn Paul describes Vince as "one of the nicest guys I had the pleasure of working with." (Twitter, 23rd July, 6:59pm)
The general election held in Spain on 23rd July ends in deadlock. The conservative People's Party (PP), led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, wins the most seats, though not enough to command a parliamentary majority, even with the support of the far-right Vox party.
Trevor Francis, Britain's first £1m footballer, dies of a heart attack in Spain on 24th July, aged 69.
On the same day Twitter changes its brand and logo from its famous blue bird to "X".
Sinéad O’Connor, best known for her 1990 number 1 single Nothing Compares 2 U, dies at her home in London on 26th July, aged 56.
On the same day a jury at Southwark Crown Court finds the actor Kevin Spacey not guilty of sexual offences against four men.
Also that day the Court of Appeal quashes a conviction against Andrew Malkinson, who had been wrongfully convicted and jailed in 2003 for the rape of a 33-year-old woman in Salford, Greater Manchester.
Paul Reubens, best known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman, dies on 30th July, aged 70.
Monday, 31st July is the last day on which non-barcoded stamps can be used to post items in the UK.

On 7th August the first asylum-seekers board the controversial Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland Port in Dorset, on which up to 506 men were to have been accommodated while they awaited the outcome of their asylum applications. On the same day, however, Dorset Council informs the barge's operators that Legionella bacteria had been confirmed on the barge, making it necessary for the asylum-seekers to be evacuated.
On 9th August a state of emergency is declared in Hawaii as wildfires fanned by strong winds spread across the island of Maui, causing widespread damage and fatalities.
On the same day Fernando Villavicencio, a candidate in Ecuador's presidential election, is assassinated at a campaign rally in Quito.
Robbie Robertson, the founder member of The Band who wrote their biggest hits, The Weight and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, dies on 9th August, aged 80.
NHS Junior Doctors in England take strike action from 7.00am Friday, 11th August until 7.00am on Tuesday, 15th August; NHS consultants also go on strike for 48 hours from 7.00am on Thursday, 24th August until 7.00am on Saturday, 26th August.
Patricia Bredin, who represented the UK in the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest, dies on Sunday, 13th August, aged 88.
At least 35 people are reported dead after an explosion on 14th August at a petrol station in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.
Faced by spreading wildfires the authorities in Canada's Northwest Territories declare a state of emergency on 14th August. On the evening of 16th August, evacuation orders were issued for the city of Yellowknife.
The television presenter Michael Parkinson dies on 16th August, aged 88.
Former NHS nurse Lucy Letby is sentenced to life imprisonment on 21st August, having been found guilty of murdering seven babies and of attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire.
On 23rd August, days after Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft had spun out of control and crashed into the Moon, India's lunar lander Vikram successfully touches down near the lunar south pole.
Hartwig Fischer resigns as Director of the British Museum on 25th August following press reports that an estimated 2,000 artefacts had gone missing from the museum.
On 28th August, the busiest day of the year, a major technical issue affecting air traffic control services to flights within the UK causes long delays and cancellations for air passengers in the UK and abroad.
On 29th August the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is expanded to include all 32 of London's boroughs.
Mohamed Al Fayed, the former owner of Harrods and Fulham Football Club, dies on Wednesday, 30th August, aged 94.

Jimmy Buffett, best known for his hit Margaritaville, dies on 1st September, aged 76.
On the same day two members of the far-right Proud Boys group, Ethan Nordean and Dominic Pezzola, are jailed for 18 and 10 years respectively for their roles in the US Capitol riot of 2021. On 5th September the former head of the group, Enrique Tarrio, is sentenced to 22 years in prison.
The comedian and impersonator Mike Yarwood dies on 8th September, aged 82.
On the same day an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 strikes Morocco's Marrakesh–Safi region, killing more than 2,800 people and destroying historic landmarks in Marrakesh.
On 9th September Daniel Khalife, a prisoner who had escaped from Wandsworth Prison three days earlier by attaching himself to the underside of a food delivery lorry, is apprehended on a canal towpath in the Northolt area.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, founder and President of South Africa's Inkatha Freedom Party, dies on 9th September, aged 95.
On 10th September Luis Rubiales announces his resignation as President of the Spanish Football Federation following criticism for kissing Spain forward Jenni Hermoso at the Women's World Cup final presentation ceremony.
On the same day Storm Daniel makes landfall near the city of Benghazi in Libya, triggering the collapse of the Derna and Mansour dams.
Jean Boht, best known for playing Nellie Boswell in the BBC sitcom Bread, dies on 12th September, aged 91.
Roger Whittaker, famous for his hit songs Durham Town and The Last Farewell, dies on 13th September, aged 87.
On 19th September Azerbaijan launches a 24-hour military offensive against ethnic-Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. On 28th September the Republic of Artsakh agrees to dissolve itself by 1st January 2024.
On 22nd September, following an address to the Canadian Parliament by visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Speaker of the House Anthony Rota introduces and praises as a "hero" a Ukrainian-Canadian retiree from North Bay, Yaroslav Hunka. Rota announces his resignation four days later after media reports reveal that Hunka had fought for a Nazi unit during World War II.
Sir Michael Gambon, who won three Olivier awards for his performances at the National Theatre, dies on 27th September, aged 82.

On 7th October the Palestinian militant group Hamas launches an attack on Israel from Gaza, killing over 1,400 Israelis and taking 230 civilians and Israeli soldiers to Gaza as hostages. Israel declares war on Hamas the following day, launching a campaign of aerial bombardment, followed by a ground invasion of Gaza.
Parliamentary by-elections are held in the Conservative "safe seats" of Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire on 19th October. Sarah Edwards, the Labour Party candidate, wins in Tamworth; Alistair Strathern, also Labour, wins in Mid-Bedfordshire.
Haydn Gwynne, who played Mrs. Wilkinson in the West End and Broadway productions of Billy Elliot The Musical, and whose television roles included Alex Pates in Drop The Dead Donkey and Camilla in The Windsors, dies on 20th October, aged 66.
The former Manchester United footballer Sir Bobby Charlton, who won three league titles, a European Cup and FA Cup with the club, and who also won 106 caps playing for England, including the team's victory in the 1966 World Cup final, dies at Macclesfield General Hospital on 21st October, aged 86.
On 25th October 18 people are killed and 13 injured in a mass shooting at a bowling alley and bar in the town of Lewiston in the US state of Maine. The perpetrator, Robert Card, is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot on 27th October.
Matthew Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing in the TV sitcom Friends (1994-2004), is found dead at his home in Los Angeles on 28th October, aged 54.

Andrew Lumsden, who co-founded Gay News in 1971 and helped organise the first Gay Pride march in 1972, dies on 1st November, aged 82.
On 2nd November Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is found guilty of fraud and money laundering at the end of a month-long trial in New York.
On 12th November a section of the Silkyara Bend–Barkot road tunnel in Uttarakhand collapses, trapping 41 construction workers. All 41 are rescued on 28th November.
Suella Braverman is sacked as Home Secretary on 13th November, after writing an article for The Times accusing the Metropolitan Police of bias in the policing of protests. She is replaced by James Cleverly, who is replaced as Foreign Secretary by former Prime Minister David Cameron.
On 15th November the Supreme Court rules that the UK government's controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful.
A.S. Byatt, whose novel Possession won the Booker Prize in 1990, dies on 16th November, aged 87.
Pedro Sánchez is sworn in for a third term as Prime Minister of Spain on 17th November, after agreeing to an amnesty for those involved in organising the 2017 Catalan independence referendum.
On the same day in the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory whistle-blower David McBride pleads guilty to leaking classified military documents. The documents contained information exposing war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.
Rosalynn Carter, the First Lady of the USA from 1977 until 1981, dies on 19th November, aged 96.
On 22nd November a car crashes and explodes on the Rainbow Bridge linking the USA and Canada. The occupants of the car, Kurt Villani and his wife Monica Villani, are both killed.
The general elections held in the Netherlands on 22nd November end in victory for the right-wing populist Party for Freedom (PVV), led by Geert Wilders, The PVV wins 37 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, becoming the largest party for the first time.
On 23rd November an anti-immigration protest in Dublin develops into a riot, with vehicles set on fire and shops looted. Earlier that day three children and a school care assistant had been stabbed by a naturalised Irish citizen of Algerian origin outside a primary school in Parnell Square East.
Terry Venables, who managed the England football team from 1994 to 1996, dies on 25th November, aged 80.
The former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dies on 29th November, aged 100.
Shane MacGowan of The Pogues dies on 30th November, aged 65.
The former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling dies on the same day, aged 70.

On 1st December the US House of Representatives votes by 311–114 to expel the Republican Congressman George Santos. The vote comes in the wake of a House Ethics Committee report accusing him of fraud.
On the same day fighting resumes between Israel and Hamas, ending a seven-day ceasefire which had enabled the exchange of 240 Palestinian prisoners for 110 hostages held by Hamas as well as the supply of humanitarian aid to people in Gaza.
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to sit on the US Supreme Court, dies on 1st December, aged 93.
Brigit Forsyth, best known for her roles as Thelma Ferris in the BBC comedy Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? and Helen Yeldham in the ITV drama Boon, dies on 1st December, aged 83.
Glenys Kinnock, who was married to the former leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock and who represented Wales in the European Parliament from 1994 until 2009, dies on Sunday, 3rd December, aged 79.
Mount Marapi, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, erupts on the same day, sending ash as high as 3,000 metres and killing 23 hikers who had been near to its crater.
Denny Laine, a former member of the Moody Blues (1964-1966) and later a member of Wings (1971-1981), dies on Tuesday, 5th December, aged 79, after a long battle with lung disease.
On 6th December Robert Jenrick resigns as Minister of State for Immigration, criticising the UK government's Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill is "a triumph of hope over experience". The Bill is given a first reading in the House of Commons on 7th December and passes its second reading on 12th December.
The writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah dies on Thursday, 7th December, aged 65.
Ryan O’Neal dies on 8th December, aged 82.
On Monday, 11th December, after officiating at the Turkish Süper Lig game between MKE Ankaragucu and Caykur Rizespor, which ended a 1-1 draw, football referee Halil Umut Meler is punched and knocked to the ground by MKE Ankaragucu President Faruk Koca. In response the Turkish FA (TFF) suspends the matches in all leagues indefinitely.
On Wednesday, 13th December Donald Tusk is sworn in as Prime Minister of Poland, having previously been Prime Minister between 2007 and 2014.
On 14th December the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publishes its annual list of the busiest railway stations in Great Britain. The statistics reveal that between 1st April 2022 and 31st March 2023 Liverpool Street station had replaced Waterloo as the busiest, with Paddington in second place. The rise in passenger numbers at both stations is attributed to the opening of the Elizabeth Line in May 2022.
Alex Batty, a 17-year-old British boy who had gone missing after going on holiday with his mother and grandfather in 2017, is discovered near Toulouse in France on 13th December.
On the same day, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai (COP28), it is announced that the participating countries had agreed to a compromise deal that "called on" all nations to "transition away" from fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) "in a just, orderly and equitable manner".
On 15th December, in a landmark case at the High Court in London, Mr. Justice Fancourt rules in favour of Prince Harry for 15 of the 33 sample stories used in his claims of phone hacking against Mirror Group Newspapers. The Prince is awarded £140,600 in damages.
On the same day, after a 4-day trial in Washington DC, the former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani is ordered to pay more than $148m to two election workers in Georgia, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, whom he had falsely accused of manipulating vote tallies. Six days later Giuliani files for bankruptcy.
On Monday, 18th December, after weeks of intense earthquakes and tremors, a volcano erupts on the Reykjanes peninsula of south-west Iceland.
On Thursday, 21st December a 24-year-old history student, David Kozak, opens fire at Charles University in Prague, killing 14 people and injuring 25 others.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on 25th December for the first time, having traditionally used the Julian calendar, also used by Russia, where Christmas falls on 7th January.
Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995, dies on 27th December, aged 98.
The New Year Honours 2023, published on 30th December, include an OBE for DJ Tony Blackburn and a MBE for DJ Steve Wright. The founder of the Glastonbury Festival Michael Eavis receives a Knighthood, best-selling writer Jilly Cooper is made a Dame and Dame Shirley Bassey becomes a Companion of Honour.
On 31st December, during her traditional New Year's Eve speech, Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, Europe's longest-serving monarch, announces that she will abdicate on 14th January 2024.

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  Now And Then
  
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  Pointless
  
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  Wish You The Best
  
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  Paint The Town Red
  
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  Flowers
  
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  Used To Be Young
  
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  Sprinter
  
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  What Was I Made For
  
• Kenya Grace
  Strangers
  
• Jack Harlow
  Lovin' On Me
  
• Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding
  Miracle
  
• Calvin Harris & Sam Smith
  Desire
  
• J Hus featuring Drake
  Who Told You
  
• David Kushner
  Daylight
  
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  People
  
• Dua Lipa
  Dance The Night
  
• Loreen
  Tattoo
  [Eurovision Song Contest Winner]
  
• Miguel
  Sure Thing
  
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  Barbie World
  
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  Padam Padam
  
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  Trustfall
  
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  Boy's A Liar
  
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  Escapism
  
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  Bad Idea Right
  
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  Get Him Back
  
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  Vampire
  
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  You're Christmas To Me
  
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  Eyes Closed
  
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  Cruel Summer
  
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  I Can See You (Taylor's Version)
  
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  Is It Over Now (Taylor's Version)
  
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  Now That We Don't Talk (Taylor's Version)
  
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  Who We Used To Be
  
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  The Ballad Of Darren
  
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  Gettin' Old
  
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  Endless Summer Vacation
  
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  Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
  
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  For All The Dogs
  
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  Danse Macabre
  
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  A Kiss For The Whole World
  
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  Fuse
  
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  Higher Than Heaven
  
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  What Ifs & Maybes
  
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  The Show
  
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  Be Opened By The Wonderful
  
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  Rokflote
  
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  Sonder
  
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  Power To Play
  
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  72 Seasons
  
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  Tension
  
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  Just The Two Of Us: The Duets Collection
  
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  Bauhaus Staircase
  
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  This Is Why
  
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  Trustfall
  
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  My 21st Century Blues
  
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  Cliff With Strings - My Kinda Life
  
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  Hackney Diamonds
  
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  Cruel Summer
  
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  1989 (Taylor's Version)
  
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  Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
  
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  This Life
  
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  Queen Of Me
  
  

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Tony Award for Best Musical:
Kimberly Akimbo

Olivier Award
for Best New Musical:
Standing At The Sky's Edge

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BBC Sport

BBC
Sports Personality
of the Year:
Mary Earps

Darts: Michael Smith beats Michael van Gerwen 7-4 in the final of the PDC World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace.

Football: Gareth Bale, the former Wales, Tottenham and Real Madrid forward announces his retirement from football on 9th January.
Manchester City win the Premier League, FA Cup and the Champions League. Manchester United, the only other English club to achieve the feat, lose to City 2-1 in the FA Cup final. City complete the Treble with a 1-0 win over Inter Milan at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. On 22nd December Manchester City add the FIFA Club World Cup to the team's haul of trophies, winning the competition the first time with a 4-0 victory over Fluminense in Saudi Arabia.
West Ham beat Fiorentina 2-1 to win the Europa Conference League, the club's first trophy in 43 years.
On 23rd December Rebecca Welch becomes the first woman to referee a Premier League fixture, officiating the match between Fulham and Burnley. Three days later, at a match between Sheffield United and Luton Town, Sam Allison becomes the first black referee to take charge of a Premier League fixture.

Tennis: Aryna Sabalenka wins the women's singles title at the Australian Open, beating the Wimbledon Champion Elena Rybakina in the final, 4-6 6-3 6-4.
Novak Djokovic wins the men's singles title for the 10th time, beating Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final, 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5).
Iga Swiatek wins the women's singles title at the French Open for the third time in four years, beating Karolina Muchova in the final, 6-2 5-7 6-4.
Novak Djokovic beats Casper Ruud in the men's singles final (7-6 (7-1) 6-3 7-5) to claim a 23rd Grand Slam singles title.
Marketa Vondrousova becomes the first unseeded player to win the women's singles title at Wimbledon after beating Ons Jabeur in the final, 6-4, 6-4.
Carlos Alcaraz beats the defending champion Novak Djokovic in the men's singles final, 1-6, 7-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.
Coco Gauff wins the women's singles title at the US Open, beating the Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka in the final, 2-6 6-3 6-2.
Novak Djokovic wins a 24th Grand Slam singles title at the US Open beating Daniil Medvedev in the final, 6-3 7-6 (7-5) 6-3.
Italy win the David Cup for the first time in 47 years.

Rugby Union: Ireland win the Six Nations Championship, claiming the team's fourth 'Grand Slam' with a 29-16 victory over England in the final match.
South Africa win a record fourth Rugby World Cup title, beating New Zealand in the final 12-11.

Horse Racing: the 7-5 favourite Galopin Des Champs, ridden by Paul Townend, wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
The Grand National is won by Corach Rambler, ridden by Derek Fox, who had previously won the race in 2017 on One For Arthur.
The Epsom Derby is won by Auguste Rodin, ridden by Ryan Moore.

Athletics: Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum win the men's London Marathon, finishing in two hours, one minute and 25 seconds, just 16 seconds shy of Eliud Kipchoge's world record, Sifan Hassan, the 5,000m and 10,000m gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, overcomes a hip problem to win the women's race in two hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds.
Tigst Assefa breaks the women's marathon world record in Berlin on 24th September, crossing the line in two hours, 11 minutes and 53 seconds.
Kelvin Kiptum breaks the men's marathon world record in Chicago on 8th October with a time of two hours and 35 seconds.
At the World Athletics Championships in Budapest Katarina Johnson-Thompson wins a gold medal in the heptathlon; Josh Kerr beats the Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to take gold in the men's 1,500m.

Snooker: Belgium's Luca Brecel becomes the first player from mainland Europe to win snooker's World Championship, beating four-time champion Mark Selby (18-15) in the final at The Crucible in Sheffield.
Ronnie O'Sullivan defeats Ding Junhui 10-7 at the York Barbican to win a record-extending 8th UK Championship.

Rowing: the annual women's Boat Race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge is won by Cambridge with a winning margin of four-and-a-half lengths. The men's race is also won by Cambridge.

Golf: Jon Rahm wins the US Masters at Augusta National, finishing with a final round of 69, Brooks Koepka, who had been leading by two shots going into the final round, finishes in second place, four shots behind.
Brooks Koepka holds off challenges from Scottie Scheffler and Viktor Hovland to claim his third US PGA Championship title at Oak Hill in New York state.
On 6th June the PGA Tours and DPA World Tour announce a merger with the Saudi-funded rival circuit LIV Golf.
Wyndham Clark wins the US Open in Los Angeles, finishing on 10 under par, one shot ahead of Rory McIlroy.
Brian Harman wins the Open Championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club.
Europe win the Ryder Cup by 161⁄2-111⁄2.

Cycling: the defending champion Jonas Vingegaard wins the Tour de France for the second year in a row.

Cricket: Stuart Broad, playing in his final Test before retiring, takes the last two wickets in the fifth Test against Australia to leave The Ashes series level at 2-2.
Australia win the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, defeating India in the final by six wickets.

Motor Racing: defending champion Max Verstappen secures a third consecutive F1 Drivers' Championship with victory at the Qatar Grand Prix. He ends the season with a record 19 wins out of 22 Grands Prix. His team, Red Bull Racing, win their sixth Constructors' Championship.

Man Booker Prize

Winner:
Paul Lynch
Prophet Song

Sarah Bernstein
Study For Obedience

Jonathan Escoffery
If I Survive You

Paul Harding
This Other Eden

Chetna Maroo
Western Lane

Paul Murray
The Bee Sting

Women's
Prize for Fiction

Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead